Arsaze

• Asking Claude to cut the silences and filler words from a talking-head recording, add captions and export a 9:16 version while you watch the edits land on the timeline
• Messaging the AI employee in a Slack channel with an interview file and a brief, then approving or requesting changes to the reel it sends back
• Turning a full podcast episode into a cleaned-up edit plus vertical clips of standalone moments
• Giving the AI employee a public website address and steps to get a narrated product demo video
• Having an assistant read a client's frame-accurate review comments and make the requested fixes
• Roughing out an edit with an AI assistant in Arsaze, then exporting FCPXML to finish in DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro

Arsaze treats the editor itself as the product an agent uses, rather than bolting a chat box onto a timeline. Exposing projects, timeline edits, color, audio, captions, review and rendering as MCP tools, with live playback and automatic versioning, makes agent editing something you can supervise and undo instead of a black-box render. Tab covers the opposite end: small, repetitive follow-up edits that are faster to accept with one key than to describe. The free desktop features and the ability to connect your own assistant on the Free plan make it cheap to try. The caution is maturity: it launched at the end of September 2026, comes from a small company, bills monthly in rupees, and its AI employee is narrow (talking heads, podcasts and public-site demos). It is a reasonable bet for creators and small teams already living in Claude or ChatGPT; teams that need a proven vendor or offline editing should wait.

About Arsaze

Arsaze is a non-linear editor first: tracks, clips, trims, splits, ripple edits, transitions, keyframes, color wheels, curves, HSL secondaries and LUTs, plus audio ducking and loudness normalization. Every clip is transcribed word by word, so you can also cut by deleting text. What sets it apart is that the whole editor is exposed as tools on a remote MCP server at api.arsaze.com/mcp. You add it as a custom connector in Claude, ChatGPT or Grok, sign in with OAuth (no API keys), and the assistant can list projects, search assets, edit the timeline, grade color, mix audio, generate media, add captions, create review links and render. Each tool call plays back live in the open project and is versioned as it happens, so you can watch, undo or take over by hand. Connecting your own assistant and editing with it works on the Free plan; Arsaze's built-in assistant, Animate Studio and AI generation need a paid plan or a credit pack. Two other agent-style features sit around the editor. Tab shows the next edit you were likely to make as a preview on the timeline (cutting the other pauses, dropping retakes, matching a grade, keeping captions in sync) and applies it with one key; it is on every plan. The AI employee is a video editor you message in Slack, Instagram DMs or on arsaze.com: send footage or a Drive or Dropbox link and a brief, and it edits talking-head videos, podcast episodes with vertical clips, or narrated demos of public websites in your brand kit, quotes the credits before starting, and remembers rules from your change requests. Arsaze runs in the browser and as a desktop app for Windows, Linux and Apple silicon Macs (beta), where transcription, background removal and exports run locally for free and local projects keep footage on your computer. Edits export as MP4 or as FCPXML for DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro. The tradeoffs: it is a very young, closed-source product from a small company (launched September 29, 2026), prices are in Indian rupees with monthly billing, the desktop app still needs an internet connection, and the AI employee cannot sign in to your product or post to social accounts.